Analysts in an enterprise environment usually have to deal with data from a multitude of sources. One of the most prevalent is SAP BusinessObjects and while it does provide enterprise level capabilities to IT it might not provide all the capabilities analysts require. The analyst wishing to leverage the powerful visualization and storytelling capabilities of […]

Self-service does not start at report development. With tools like Alteryx or Talend you can get and transform your data easily and produce consumable output formats for your reporting or visualization tool (yes, for Tableau). This sounds cool, but it’s still an iterative process: extract and load, then analyze. It will never be real time. Tableau’s answer is […]

Regardless the sad facts I just can’t hate Business Objects. It belongs to my professional career: ugly but useful Web Intelligence reports, long running bursts for personalized mega excels – I still have nostalgic emotions. But what is bittersweet memory for me, is an everyday encounter for many of my customers. They still manage large SAP […]